Comments on: New Phone Scam Offers Free Money from the Federal Government

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:37:40 +0000

I got a call earlier today 5/6/10 saying since I was one of America's best citizens the Fedral (his spelling) Health Department was going to send me $500. All I had to do was give them my address. I was given an address (in NJ), a phone number, person's name and ID number. I asked him more questions than he asked me. He finally gave up and hung up on me.

By: lisa snyder

lisa snyder — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:03:45 +0000

i got a call yesterday ,they said tthis guy named steve walls was from the us government and he had 5000.00 to give me all i had to do was give him a card numer to put it on so i gave him pre paid card that has no link to anything then he says his supervisor was going to call me today and put money on card well when they called they wanted me to go to western union and give someone in india 50.00 as a donation first then they would send the money lol they think people are that stupid the numers they gave me are 1-202-657-6268 and 1-408- 916 1704 supposedly the government id # is I374 for steve walls ,i live in alaska be ware of this scam

By: DAQ

DAQ — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:33:20 +0000

I received the call today also and muther ****ed them throughly and told them that I called the our State Arttorney General's office as well as BBB. I'd never offer my acct. info but it's absurd that they are claming they are from the U.S. Dept of Health and Human services. It's a federal crime to claim you are from a government agency. Total pieces of ****.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:49:45 +0000

they call every day, all day, mostly we ignore it and just don't answer………..but tonight I just plain got sick of it and answered the phone in order to become the "most ignorant person on the face of the planet"………and I performed quuite well for about 10 minutes while my wife and son were doubled and rolling around on the with laughter. Finally in complete experation they hung up on me, and I doubt they will call me again.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:04:04 +0000

I just received a call today 11-18-09 about how the goverment wants to give me 5000. dollars. This is the second call I have got from them. So i humored the guy for a while. The first call I got they wanted a bank acct number so i told the guy if they wanted to give me money just send me a check. The guy and i argued back and forth till i hung up. Today it was the same thing but when i told him i would give no personal info to him he said i could get my free money thru western union but i had to call his supervisor ay 202-657-6402 to get a number so i could go get my money. I called the number he gave me and got no awncer. I know its a scam but i was bored and wanted to mess with them a little bit. How do they think they can pull this scam off about giving us goverment money when they can hardly speek english??

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:16:37 +0000

I got this call today from phone number 317-299-7864. Shouldn't the feds be going after this person? If we can provide a phone number why can't they catch them?

By: ARF

ARF — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:47:41 +0000

6/18/09
They are at it again form phone number 202 – 280 – 2381
This phone has call blocking, but they do not even care.
And looking for me? This phone is an emergency #, does not have a name.

By: New York City

New York City — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:16:46 +0000

Thanks so very much for this information. This same scam was attempted on someone dear to me. Your article gave me the ability to demonstrate to the individual that the $4,851 that the "National Grants Department" promised to send in return for a processing fee of $149 was a lie. Unfortunately, many people are extremely desperate right now and are falling for these types of con games.